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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 17866, member: 669&quot;] <ol> <li>&quot;Republique Francais&quot; is &quot;Republic of France&quot; in French</li> <li>RF stands for Republique Francais, but without seeing the other side only an expert in French coinage would tell if it is a French-minted Euro, or a coin from one of the possesions or non-European French departments.</li> <li>Has a Greekish look to it, but the country and denomination are probably on the other side</li> <li>Definitely Greek</li> <li>Country name is on the other side.&nbsp; It is a 1/2 centime, centissimo, centavo, cent, etc., depending on the currency of the country that issued it.</li> </ol><p>Experts in the coinage of a particular country can frequently identify a coin from the side without key legends, but for most of us it takes the side or sides having the country name and denomination on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This may seem self-evident, but many new coin collectors seem to forget:&nbsp; Coins generally have the issuing country&#039;s name and denomination in the language of the issuing country, frequently not using the familiar Latin alphabet or so-called Arabic numbers. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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